When US law discriminates differently against Black Native Americans

[thomdunn]

Originally published at: When US law discriminates differently against Black Native Americans | Boing Boing

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[knoxblox]

Lines on a map are not hard, objective facts—they’re literally just lines that someone drew on one particular map.

[docosc]

@thomdunn

on the grounds that the United States government does not recognize him as a Native American, even though he is a citizen of tribal nation.

And the US has authority to define whom a sovereign nation recognizes as one of it’s own, because?

[DTop]

The New York Times recently published a harrowing… what exactly? Article? Story? Thought piece? Slice of pecan pie?

[thomdunn]

Thank you for registering here just to post that very productive comment.

[Melizmatic]

Intersectional people of Indigenous and African origin were mistreated terribly by the government?

Color me:

Also…

Fuck the NY Times.

(No shade on you personally, Thom; everyone has gotta eat.)